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ADJECTIVE wide COMPARATIVE wider SUPERLATIVE widest
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wide

A wide thing is long from one side to the other side. This box is 3 units long and 2 units wide, but only 1 unit high.

wide

(= broad) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other wide roads a wide necktie wide margins three feet wide a river two miles broad broad shoulders a broad river (= across-the-board, all-embracing, blanket, broad, panoptic) broad in scope or content across-the-board pay increases an all-embracing definition blanket sanctions against human-rights violators an invention with broad applications a panoptic study of Soviet nationality — T.G.Winner granted him wide powers with or by a broad space stand with legs wide apart ran wide around left end (= wide-eyed) (used of eyes) fully open or extended stared with wide eyes to the fullest extent possible open your eyes wide with the throttle wide open (= broad, spacious) very large in expanse or scope a broad lawn the wide plains a spacious view spacious skies (= astray) far from the intended target the arrow went wide of the mark a bullet went astray and killed a bystander (= widely) to or over a great extent or range; far wandered wide through many lands he traveled widely great in degree won by a wide margin (= wide of the mark) not on target the kick was wide the arrow was wide of the mark a claim that was wide of the truth (= full) having ample fabric the current taste for wide trousers a full skirt

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Simple sentences

My living room has wide windows.
Although there are wide variations in unemployment levels in different industries and in different parts of the country, every region is now being affected by the slow-down in the economy.
Tom's wide-eyed optimism is beginning to grate on my nerves.
Tom left, leaving the door wide open.
In this store, we have a wide variety of books.
This road is not wide enough.
The surface of this road is less than four meters wide.
Life is not long, it is wide!
You're wide of the mark.
Now I'm wide awake.
The arrow fell wide of the mark.
The tree thrusts its branches far and wide.
The chest is three feet wide.
The river is wide.
The skirt is too wide for me.
We have a wide choice of fruits at the supermarket.
How wide is this river?
Open your mouth wide.
My first guess was wide off the mark.
It's as deep as it is wide.
The sea is very wide.
The little boy gazed at the huge elephant, eyes wide open.
The company manufactures a wide variety of musical instruments.
This avenue is wide but not very long.

Movie subtitles

Between 1 405 and 1 424, admiral Zheng He's fleet ranged far and wide.
China's failure to exploit its advantages left the path of overseas expansion wide open for the West.
Even if I get emptied of everything, I can't just watch with my two eyes wide open!
Lord Choi has his eyes wide open!
Cameron Rash was the best person in the whole wide world.
God, his eyes are still wide open.
Your two wide players block from the wings, while your back player zooms through.
And in a foreign land - in Prague - a Cossack walks along a street, sweeping it with his wide trousers.
The doors of Paris open onto the unknown at any speed, far and wide, across France.
You threw too wide a loop.
Well, you can make this table a little. A little less wide.
I like rooms that have such wide, tall windows.
Well, let's tear it wide open.
It covers a fairly wide range.
France's flag is wide and can shelter all those who seek refuge and protection.
Out of cramped rooms into wide, mystic spaces.
But that night it was wide awake and roaring.
I'll tell that little filly there's a wide-open noose waiting' for you in every river town.
They call me Naughty Lola, I'm known far and wide.
We wander through the whole wide world Let's go!
I want you to meet the sweetest little thing in the whole wide world.
Well, you could make this table a little less wide.
Snow is like a wide sea.
I got it wide open.
Would you believe that in the 20 years that I've been stroking this razor across throats here that many a time I've had an impulse to cut their Adam's apples wide open?
Her eyes.. were wide open.
Your man here retaliated by telling the Special Activities Division you were about to blow their op wide open.
Jerry is wide open and is jolted by a terrific left hook that sent him to his heels.
On the other hand he will look at me with a kind of thick, myopic expression. And although he is apparently listening intently.. And his eyes are wide open.
I've got if wide open, sir.
Geographically. it's a rock shaped like a dog's head. barely 650 metres long. and about 200 metres wide.
Now, this forest is wide.
He'll tear this whole town wide open.
When I was here before, I noticed a photograph of a woman. on the desk in a wide silver frame.
A vein of silver as wide as the island, that's what it's all about!
Looked like we didn't have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies. Like nobody was friendly no more.
If you was worth breakin' my nails on, I'd tear your face wide open.
You must have had your eyes wide open to find a spot like this.

News and current affairs

Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.
A logical corollary of the criteria set forth by Kenen and Obstfeld, and even of Mundell's labor-mobility criterion, is that currency unions cannot survive without political legitimacy, most likely involving region-wide popular elections.
And a real choice requires Europe-wide election campaigns by all parties.
Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters' interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission's President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.
And, as we have seen in many countries' efforts to ameliorate the crisis, the non-cooperative protectionist response is much more likely to be adopted - despite wide recognition that it is highly destructive - when aggregate demand is in short supply.
Wouldn't life be easier if a common market, currency, foreign policy, army, and a few other things were run on a Europe-wide basis, with the rest left to more meaningful local units?
The world-wide dilemma over exchange rate management is that when market pressure is not high necessary changes no longer seem so urgent.
In addition, a full banking union, starting with eurozone-wide deposit insurance, should be initiated, and moves toward greater political integration must be considered, even as Greece leaves the eurozone.
But Saudi Arabia continues to be deeply wary of any sort of change, and thus remains a huge and seemingly immovable obstacle to region-wide reform.
It reflects the impact of fundamental (and historic) economic and financial re-alignments, insufficient policy responses, and system-wide rigidities that frustrate structural change.
Indeed, while inequality's harmful effects are wide-reaching, and impose huge costs on our economies and societies, they are largely avoidable.
While a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.
The EU's members have structures to provide this, and with their support and input we are building structures at a Europe-wide level, to bring this information to EU policymakers.
When it came to Austria, however, there was a feeling that since this was not a military, but a purely political and moral situation, Brussels - and the Continent-wide political clout signified by it - would be able to prove efficient.
To the extent that there has been an EU-wide energy strategy, it has related to renewables, rather than the intersection of geopolitics and energy security.
But if that issue is settled (and it should be), there is an equally large and important question that remains wide open: what should we do about it?
Apart from electric-power generation, coal also has wide application in a number of industries.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
Gaza is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and one of the poorest - 1.5 million of us live on a patch of land about 41 kilometers long and 6-12 kilometers wide.
In the case of Palin - and especially that of Bachmann - we ignore the wide appeal of right-wing feminism at our peril.
For example, for the EU-wide statutory audit that was completed in April, the European Parliament agreed to a revised directive and new regulation that should have been directly applicable in all 28 member countries.
Some claim that the PISA results are based on too wide a range of factors to be relevant, while others point out the challenges inherent in testing students in various languages and with different cultural backgrounds.
The team's members also knew that Sri Lanka's government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.
While many analysts in a wide variety of nations, especially in Europe, have concluded that such an event could not occur there in the foreseeable future, India is an exception.

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